Shane Doyle QC and James Green acted for Justice Carmody in a series of cases involving the review of a decision by the Information Commissioner to grant access (under the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)) to documents held by the Supreme Court of Queensland. The Appeal Tribunal, specially constituted by Justice CRR Hoeben, denied access to the documents.
The cases involved the application of fundamental constitutional norms to a comparatively unique set of facts, as well as issues of statutory construction. The related cases are available below:
• Carmody v Information Commissioner (No 2) [2018] QCATA 015 (APL240-16) Justice CRR Hoeben 2 March 2018
• Carmody v Information Commissioner (No 3) [2018] QCATA 016 (APL242-16) Justice CRR Hoeben 2 March 2018
• Carmody v Information Commissioner (No 4) [2018] QCATA 017 (APL247-16) Justice CRR Hoeben 2 March 2018
• Carmody v Information Commissioner (No 5) [2018] QCATA 018 (APL342-16) Justice CRR Hoeben 2 March 2018
• Carmody v Information Commissioner (No 6) [2018] QCATA 019 (APL343-16) Justice CRR Hoeben 2 March 2018.
The judgment can be read by clicking here